Clarion 1947-09-17 Vol 27 No 01

The Clarion
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Vol. XXVII — No. 1
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. September 17, 1947
Tests, Picnics
Open '47-'48
School Year
Bethel officially opened its arm of
welcome on Wednesday, September 3,
and received over 200 Freshmen,
eager to begin their college work. The
Freshmen tested their knowledge,
listened to Orientation lectures and
registered during the three following
days. A "get-acquainted campfire was
held in Como Park, Thursday night.
Chartered streetcars took them to the
Minneapolis Youth for Christ on Sat-urday
night. By Monday when most
of the upper classmen returned, the
Freshmen were well settled and en-joying
the fellowship at Bethel.
Monday, September 8, was Soph-more
and Junior Registration day.
Returning students appeared happy to
be back on the Campus. Most of the
student body found its way t o
Como Park that evening to enjoy
games and generous portions of water-melon.
Classes began on Tuesday morning,
September 9. Many instructors found
their classes overcrowded which will
necessitate several changes in the
schedule.
The Seminary students registered
on Monday, September 8. They en-joyed
the fellowship of their annual
pre-classes, two hour Chapel on Tues-day
from 10:00 to 12:00 noon and
formally began their classwork on
Wednesday, September 10.
Music Outlook
Promising
Bethel's musical life is in for a most
successful year, if a promising crop
of musicians is any standard of mea-surment.
Early auditions for both the
choruses and the band showed that
the incoming freshmen were fairly
well supplied with talent. It now
remains for the leaders of the various
musical organizations to make their
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The irrepressible stench of potent
perfume, the formidable feel of vis-cous
objects, these were only two of
the sensations which came to over
200 persons on the evening of Sep-tember
12, 1947, in St. Paul, Minneso-ta.
Their piercing shrieks were aud-ible
to scores of witnesses, as one by
one they made their way down a dark
corridor in the basement floor of a
large, brick building on Arona Ave-nue.
As the ghastly sight of a human
skeleton met their eyes, it was all
Coach Arch Skalbeck
New Members
Join Faculty
In connection with the rapidly ex-panding
character of Bethel College,
ten new professors have taken their
places among the faculty. They come
from all over the country and re-present
the best in Christian educat-ors.
Miss Marina Axeen, B. A., is Beth-el's
first full-time librarian. The Eng-lish
and language departments are
now augmented by Mrs. De Laitsh,
B. A., and Miss Violet Bergquist, M.A.,
respectively. Mr. Royal Bloom, M. A.,
is in charge of the psychology and
education departments besides serving
as dii.ector of personnel. The over-burdened
history department will now
be re-enforced by Mr. Reynold Pik,
M. A.; Mr. Samuel Schultz, B. A.,
B. D.; and Mr. Ferdinand Schultz,
M. A. Mr. Samuel Schultz will also
instruct in Bible. To the aid of math-ematics
professor, Gerald Ahlquist,
comes Mr. Quentin Bohne, B. C. E.,
while Bethel's new accent on sports
they could do to draw what they
thought would be their last breath.
Yes — you've guessed it; it was
Freshrdan Initiation Night at Bethel
College.
The festivities of Friday evening
were preceded by a week of strenu-ous,
unmerciful treatment by members
of the Sophomore class. All the frills
a n d fashion of young womanhood
were abandoned and "pigtails" repla-ced
the once stunning coiffures. All
their outer clothing was worn inside
Clarion To Be
Issued Weekly
Here it is, the new 1947-48 Clarion.
Those familiar with previous editions
will readily notice the changes to be
incorporated in this year's edition.
First of all, the paper will be issued
every week except during vacations
instead of the twice monthly schedule
maintained last year. The general
appearance of the paper will also be
brightened as much as possible with
the inclusion of pictures and the
reader interest heightened with more
emphasis on news and sports.
Editor-in-chief Perry Hedberg, has
big plans for the future of the paper.
He hopes to mold it into a more
accurate mirror of student opinion
and an 'accurate source of inform-ation
for all things pertaining to
Bethel. An intensive effort has been
made to promote ' a large outside
circulation. Letters have been sent
out to alumni and pastors and a
special subscription blank for use by
students to subscribe for their parents
and friends is being distributed with
this issue.
There is still room for new report-ers,
typists, or anyone with journal-istic
experience of any kind. Quite a
few volunteers have offered to help
already, but issuing a weekly paper
obviously requires a larger staff than
before. The Clarion office is located
in room 108 and all you have to do
is drop in and state your intentions.
has brought Mr. A. M. Skalbeck, B. A.,
to coach football and help out with
physical education.
More detailed information about
some of the above mentioned prof-essors
will appear in fut.ure editions
of The Clarion. This week's sketch
on Coach Skalbeck appears in a dif-ferent
place in this edition.
out and on their feet were unmatched
shoes and stockings. Pale, wan, make-upless
faces greeted the world each
morning, and no jewelry adorned their
unusual costumes.
T h e fellows were seen sporting
varied-designed and colored neck-ties
with their T-shirts. They too were
required to wear unmatched shoes
and stockings, while one pants' leg
was worn rolled up and the sock on
that foot was securely anchored to
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New Building
Plans Told
With the singing of the grand old
hymn, "Faith of Our Fathers", led
by Prof. Nels Stjernstrom, the formal
dedication service for the Hagstrom
and Edgren Residences began last
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 in the Col-lege
Chapel. The service was led
by President Wingblade, and the main
speaker for the occasion was Rev.
William Turnwall.
The Bethel Male Quartet consisting
of Robert Sandin, James Rentz, Don
Patet, and Paul Leafblad, sang the
first of their numbers following which
Dr. K. J. Karlson, Dean of the Semi-nary,
led in devotions.
The quartet sang another number,
following which Rev. H. W. Malmsten
told of the new building program to
be inaugurated soon. He stressed the
need for more room in which to live
as well as to work. He said that the
total cost of the two new buildings
was about $325,000 and mentioned
the interesting fact that many of the
rooms were furnished in memory of
loved ones of friends of the Confer-ence.
After another musical selection, Dr.
Burton, chairman of the school board,
made a few remarks and introduced
Rev. William Turnwall. Rev. Turn-wall
mentioned his recent trip to the
Scandinavian lands and gave an in-teresting
summary of Christian edu-cation
as he found it over there. Pre-sident
Strong, of the St. Paul Bible
Institute gave a greeting after which
the service was concluded with a
hymn and the closing prayer by Dr.
Hagstrom, President Emeritus.
Those present then adjourned to
the front of the Hagstrom Residence
for the Dedication. The dedicatory
prayer was offered by Rev. Martin
Erikson and the short service was
ended with the Doxology.
Look Vets!
In the event that you're wondering
when your first subsistence checks
will arrive and how much they will
amount to, the following information
has been gathered at the Veterans
Administration office:
If you were a student here last
year, just sit tight and sooner or
later your check will arrive. Due to
the increase in college enrollment
among veterans, some of us may be
called upon to wait until the first
of November, but have faith that the
V. A. is going all out to get as many
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Dormitories Dedicated
The Coliele Cad, daft Mefrptioa Titi4
Page 2 THE CLARION
The Clarion
Editor-in-Chief Perry 0, Hedberg
Ass't Editor Marwin Lindstedt
Managing Editor Rudy W. Forsman
Ass't. Managing Editor John Soneson
News Editor Marwin Lindstedt
Feature Editor David Carlson
Sports Editor David Osterberg
Reporters Audrey Carlson, Harold
Christensen, Doris Olson, Bill Lind-roth,
Ed Stayton, John Leggett,
Adele Bavin, Al Olsson, Pat Colbum,
Paul Anderson, Pat Pope, Carl Apph-quist,
Bernice Madsen, and Milt
Regier.
tbe jBeginning
In the beginning God! The timely and time-less
truth of this statement cannot be avoided.
Behind the rolling spheres is God, as we are
reminded thirty-five times in the creation
story (Gen. 1-2:3). Only the fool rashly says,
"There is no God."
Coming from the hand of the Creator, we
see the earth stored with coal, iron, and oil;
clothed with grass, trees, and flowers; cleft
with lakes and streams; teeming with animal
life.- - - -the perfect abode of man. For God
was graciously preparing fdr man long before
he was created and granted him dominion over
the earth and all its creatures.
And even when man, created in the image
of God, rebelled against God and sinned, it
was God who sought him, and has made avail-able
for the repentant soul new life through
Christ. In redemption as in creation, "in the
beginning God."
We members of the Bethel family do well
to purpose: "In the beginning God. In my
life, in my plans, in school, in play, in work- - -
in everything He comes first. In the beginning
God! PI
Anton Pearson
Daily Worship Essential
By the Christian Student
"In the beginning was the Word".
Bethelites, we are beginning a new school
year- - -taking new courses- - -learning new
things. For some of us, college life is a new
experience from which we hope to hew the
foundation stones of Christian service, whether
it be in a business, religious or social field.
For all of us, college life at Bethel may be
rich in spiritual as well as religious content,
if we remember to put the Word of God
first in our daily program.
"In the beginning was the Word"
Tomorrow morning and every morning,
study carefully a few verses from God's Word.
Let those verses ring in your heart all the
day long. Take them with you from class to
class. Renew them as you eat your noon-day
meal. Let them re-echo as you kneel alone
in •Bethel's prayer tower. Seek to find in them
a special message from the Lord. Weave
these verses into your life all through the
day, and at night you will have no desire to
loose your hold on them as you prepare for
sleep. Let it be said of every day you spend at
Bethel this year. "In the beginning was the
Word".
tar es
We'll call this column Potar, although. no
one seems to know exactly what it means - - -
something to do with a second cup of coffee;
which reminds me, I haven't had mine yet.
If a school's vitality can be measured by
the activity of its coffee shop, Bethel is on
its way toward being the busiest campus in
the Twin Cities. Freshman are everywhere - - -
some 200 of theia, with the largest freshman
enrollment ever to register here. They cer-tainly
are a peculiar looking bunch with their
beanies, pigtails, and wrongside out clothes.
Football came to Bethel this fall in all its
glory. Watching the fellows work out the
first afternoon of practice sent a thrill down
my spine. Bethel is now participating in
every major college activity- - - -here's to great
success to Coach Skalbeck and his grand
bunch of guys.
No doubt most of you have heard of the
program to build a field house at Bethel.
With football added to the list of activities,
the need for more adequate facilities be-comes
increasingly apparent. Let's get behind
this project students and alumni, and get the
field-house here in a hurry. We're getting
tired of other teams laughing at our "cracker-box"
gym.
My coffee's almost gone, but there is one
other thing I'd like to mention. Quite often
we hear Bethel referred to as a little school.
That's not true anymore. There are now plans
underway for a new memorial chapel and ad-ministration
building which will face Snelling
Ave. between the college and seminary build-ings.
This building will be the last of the
Centennial buildings. Our small campus will
then have a total of six large buildings with
a property valuation of about $1,100,000. Truly,
He is able "to do exceeding abundantly above
all we ask or think."
21:1, .2saace diavs
By Dave Carlson
It was quite by chance the other day that
I found a rather odd-shaped package among
my clothes, books, sling shots, etc. It was
wrapped in a yellowed St. Paul Dispatch dated
June 6, 1947 with an abundance of borrowed
string around it. I tore off the wrapper and
the 25 layers of tissue paper and there, to my
amazement, I found an article which I had
forgotten about completely. What do you
think it was? No, it wasn't my giant size
bottle of hair tonic nor was it my Male
Chorus charm which, by the way, I have
never received. It was my dear friend, the
HARP, however, so I tenderly rested it on
my stomach and- touched its strings but, alas
and alack, it was horribly out of tune. I was
at a loss....my harp tuner was in Portland,
Ore. and would not be here until the latter
part of October. In desperation I tightened
the strings myself but I am afraid you, my
dear readers, will sense a few flat notes here
and there as the result of my harp not being
tuned by my expert. As long as the strings
are intact, we shall try to make some kind of
music to grate upon your ears....desirable or
not.
CHIT CHAT....I would like to suggest that
all Freshmen wear name plates for the first
quarter as a convenience for the upper class-men,
especially those Sophmore boys who
have been casting wistful glances at the op-posite
sex in the Freshman class.... Another
disconcerting note should be sounded in re-gard
to the "obstacle course" which Semin-ary
students must run between trailers while
etnz of Xbougbt
By President Wingblade
Once more a fellowship of faculty and stu-dents
are beginning a year of school work on
Bethel campus. Some of us have seen a good
many generations of students come to Bethel
halls with faces aglow, stay a while, and then
go out to do and dare in the midst of world
needs.
Question: What will your coming mean to
this year of Bethel—your roomate, your chum,
your fellow students, to your teachers—to
the atmosphere of the School? "If every stu-dent
were just like me, what kind of school
would Bethel be?"
How true it is that there are just two kinds
of people in the world, and in a school,
namely, the lifter and the leaner. Will you
be the one -who shall buoy up the spirit of
a fellow student with a kind word, a cherrfai
smile, a helpful hand—just when he needs it
most?
Will you by your very presence in a group,
in a classroom, in a meeting just raise the
thermometer of love and faith because you
are there? Will the very light in your count-enance
make it easier for teacher or chapel
speaker to carry on? Will you by your love
for Christ and deep prayer life be a very
fountain of inspiration this year?
As I look back across the years at Bethel
student life, and individuals as they have
been on the campus and then as they have
gone out, I find that this is so largely true—
that students do not change much. When they
get out as pastors or laymen they continue
to be pretty much what they were at Bethel.
I can visualize a score or more of pastors
today and prove that point to my own mind.
How important, then, to begin now to be
what we really want to be ten years or
twenty years from now. May the Lord give
us His sufficiency for it all.
A Beginning ThoughT
As the 1947-48 school year begins, the year
which bridges the gap between Bethel, the
Junior College, and Bethel, the Senior College,
hopes are running high' for great accomplish-ment.
We are encouraged! This thought ling-ers
with us. Christian students have the
greatest advantage of all students. They al-ready
have met with and know TRUTH, the
Lord Jesus Christ, and then engage in their
several educational pursuits with real assur-ance
of a proper interpretation of life.
dashing (can't you just see them?) from
b. eakfast to their first hour class ...Have
you noticed the happy and well-fed look on
the faces of some of the newly-wed fellows
around campus? I sought some advice from
one of them the other day and all he had to
say was, "Go and do likewise". Think I will.
I-NE VER-EXPECT-T 0-SEE-DEPT : Maynard
without Thelma.... the light of day unless I
get up before breakfast one of these mornings
....Pat Salstrom because her schedule seems
to be a 24-hour one, including dormitory part-ies
and general chemistry. Poor girl....the
Chapel speaker if I am not unfortunate en-ough
to get a seat in the first row of the
"balcony" but if I go that far back I will miss
a seat in Dr. Karlson's class. So I can't win.
GREETINGS -....Realizing the danger I
face in being called an "apple polisher", I
want to say "Welcome" to all the new teach-ers
on our "campus beautiful" this year We
are sure that their addition to our campus
is an improvement and we hope that you will
all feel like members of our jig "Bethel
family" whose members are spread through-out
the world. Oh yes, and hard tests are
frowned upon by the majority of your "bro-thers
and sisters". (Hope that word is suf-ficient).
Typists Jean Butler, Carolyn Hedberg,
Roy Dalton
Art Editor Ted Hamlin
Photographers ....Byron Skalman, Harry Paney
Business Manager Bob Hamlett
Circulation Manager Kenneth Skov
Faculty Adviser V. Elving Anderson
Issued weekly during the school year, ex-cept
vacations.
Subscription price - - -$1.50 per year
THE CLARION Page 3
Indians Make Football Debut Sept. 19th
Grid Team Adds
To Sport Parade Sguad Qets Pautteu
Signals! Hike? Hit 'em hard! Hit
'em low!
Though the weatherman denies it,
Fall is almost here, and with it this
year football has put in an appearance
on the Bethel campus. The air is
filled with footballs and gridiron lingo
while many more (or less) rugged
men are making the acquaintance of
good 'ole mother earth. All this act-ivity
is part of the expanding pro-gram
of the Athletic Department de-signed
to keep pace with the ever
progressing development of the school
as a whole.
Though this is the first team to be
put on the field by the College De-partment
since its organization in
1932, football as a sport is not a new
project to the school. In 1908 when
Bethel Academy was in its infancy,
football made its debut under the
direction of Professor Smith. Some
of our alumni should recognize the
names of these first fore-runners of
the 1947 Bethel football team. Burk-man,
RE; Fendall, RG; A. Erickson,
C; J. Anderson, LG; P. Anderson, LT;
Thompson, LE; Segerstrom, QB;
Sundwall, RHB; Smith, LHB; M.
Ericson, B. In this first year two
games were played with the Academy
losing 15 to 5 to a strong St. Anthony
Park team and playing a scoreless tie
with Minnesota College.
From its beginning football at Be-thel
suffered from lack of equipment,
athletic field, and man-power. Occas-ional
bursts of school spirit brought
about revivals of the sport, but until
1916 football did not enjoy a regular
place on the school calendar. Two
members of our present school staff,
Professor A. J. Wingblade and Rev.
W. Malmsten, had a share in guiding
our teams until 1931 when the Acad-emy
was closed.
Today Bethel has the equipment,
manpower, and school spirit neces-sary
to organize a good football team,
and tentative plans have been made
to convert our campus ground be-tween
the college building and the
dormitories into a gridiron. A. Skal-beck,
a man with a great deal of
coaching experience, has been appoint-ed
head of the team. His task of
moulding a good team out of a group
of men who for the most part have
had very little playing experience
is a tremendous one. However, there
are some good men, and with a little
hard work and effort on the part of
all, Bethel can have a good team and
lay the foundation for future Bethel
teams to build upon.
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Thursday afternoon, September 4th,
marked the first meeting of the Be-thel
Indians' football squad. Thirty-five
prospective heroes gathered in
the locker room to hear words of
welcome from the coach, Paul Ed-wards,
who substituted for head coach
Skalbeck.
The football is now being kicked
around, and the basketbill will soon
be taking the bounds which calls for
some fellows and girls to come out
and lead the gang in cheering. Letters
will be given to the cheerleaders on
the first team. There will be four
leaders on the first team with an
alternate team of four. Tryouts will
be held soon with Bob Nelson in
charge. A notice will be posted on the
bulletin board as to the time and
date of tryouts. All girls and fellows
interested in cheerleading begin to
limber up, and watch for the notice.
First Drill Tough Work
With groans and moans and twice
as much sweat, the football team be-gan
practice sessions last Tuesday.
The fellows soon found that their
hard work through the summer had
not resulted in being in top-notch
condition. The fellows started out
great as passing drills took place, but
when the coach had them run a sprint,
all were ready to rest. They got their
rest by doing calisthenics over and
over again. Some of the fellows
couldn't understand why the coach
had them fall on their stomachs when
they hadn't even gotten up yet from
the previous fall, but that's football
for you. At the close of that first
Friday, September 19th, will be
the opening date for this season.
Rochester Junior College will meet
the Indians here at home, and though
our boys will be handicapped by a
short training period, you can expect
a good battle. In a return game with
Rochester, Bethel plays them on their
field October 3rd. A three week lay-orr
will provide our gridders with ail
opportunity to really prepare for the
Homecoming game with Austin, Oct.
24th. This should be the game of the
year! The season will close with a
whirlwind windup playing two games
in four days. On November 7th, Go-gebic
Junior College from Ironwood,
Michigan will be here, and on the
11 Bethel travels to Estherville, Iowa,
for the finale.
Much interest has been shown on
the part of both the boys out for the
team and the student body at our
practice session. We believe that this
interest in football will prevail throu-ghout
the season and that 1947 will
be the beginning of a successful car-eer
for football at Bethel.
practice session about thirty-five
weary fellows trudged off the field in-to
the locker room and gingerly felt
of the bruised and aching muscles.
Many beds were occupied early that
night, -but because of a true love for
football the boys have willingly been
back for more every afternoon.
Arch Skalbeck
Leads Gridders
We take great pleasure in intro-ducing
to the students and friends
of Bethel College, Mr. Arch Skalbeck,
a newcomer to our Athletic Staff.
Coach Skalbeck will take complete
charge of our football activities which
begin this year.
The Coach, who is six-foot three
inches tall, tips the scales at about
two hundred pounds. This huge frame-work
put him in good standing when
he played tackle and end for Gustavus
Adolphus College back in tne twenties.
He is a pleasant and genial gentle-man,
but one who really knows how
to command the respect of all who
play under him.
Graduating from Gustavus Adolphus
in 1927, Mr. Skalbeck has gathered
much experience as coach of foot-ball
and basketball, school teacher,
and high school principal. As coach
he helped direct athletics at Stevens,
Sleepy Eye, and Virginia High Schools
in Northern Minnesota, and at Wash-ington
High in St. Paul. At Sleepy
Eye his football team won the con-ference
championship in 1936, and
at Virginia High the Iron Range
championship for 1938 was captured
by his basketball boys. On September
1st this year, Mr. Skalberg resigned
from his position on the Minnesota
Board of Parole in order to return
to teaching and coaching, in which he
has done so well in these past years.
As this is the first year of football
at our school, Coach Skalbeck isn't
concentrating on a championship, but
he won't be unhappy if the boys do
come through and win for him.
Sciteciale
Sept. 19 Rochester Junior College
*Oct. 3 Rochester Junior College
*Oct. 24 Austin (Homecoming)
Nov. 7 Gogebic Junior College
Nov. 11 Esterville Junior College
* Conference Games.
Cheerleaders to Try Out Initial Kickoff
Friday Afternooiv
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Bethel Bookstore
& Coffee Shop
—Where Students and Faculty
Meet Around the Coffee Cup
Morning, afternoon and evening
Page 4 THE CLARION
Sentence Sermons Campus Dorms Receive New Life
Wherever you find a boastful
Christian, you have an immature
Christian.
Humility grows with spiritual mat-urity.
A mature Christian Life is a Fut-urist's
life.
C. E. Carlson
We need not flaunt our Christianity
in the face of the world, nor need we
be ashamed of Christ, but put the
light on the candlestick where it be-longs.
H. C. Wingblade
MUSIC
(continued from page 1)
final selections and • get serious re-hearsals
under way.
The situation in the two choruses
is good. The male chorus needs only a
few replacements as the majority of
last year's chorus is returning. There
is still room for a few more good first
tenors, but otherwise the auditions
have taken care of most of the needs
for this year. The girl's chorus is
only 505 strong as compared with
last year, so there is more chance
for aspiring singers to get in. With
the large number of experienced sing-ers
in both choruses, the outlook for
this year is better than ever.
Plans for reviving the concert band
are also under way. Bert Anderson is
again in charge and rehearsals are
scheduled on Tuesday nights. How
soon these rehearsals are to start
depends . on the support and enthus-iasm
of the many players who have
already volunteered to play.
— MEN'S DORM —
Now that school is again in session,
the patter of large feet can be heard
stumbling over the welcome mat of
the men's dorm. The mat is beginning
to look like a freshman after the
initiation program. The elite, and
not so robust members of the past
years, welcome the new comrades,
trusting that they will make them-selves
at home in every respect.
It has been interesting to note hbw
quiet the dorm was this past week.
Could it be that the freshman were
having trouble getting home after
their little rides into the country.
Hmmmm, who knows? No doubt
they'll be in early and studying this
week. How quiet the dorm will be is
another conjective.
The men's dorm, is looking
forward to a year of wonderful Christ-ian
fellowship and good fun, as well
as serious concentrated study.
VETERANS
(continued from page 1)
checks as they can into the mail by
October first.-
If you are a newcomer, you must
present to the school your letter of
elegibility. If you have transferred
to Bethel from another school, you
must secure an amended letter of
elegibility to present to this school;
and as soon as the V. A. is assured
that you are in attendance here, you
will be in line for your check on the
first of every month.
— MARRIED COUPLE'S DORM —
It seems that married people have
the happy facility of keeping so busy
that they remain unaffected by such
trivialities as watermelon feeds,
classes, and other such minutia as
may seem quite important to those
who have not yet received their pass-port
to bliss (license, that is,
Take last week for examplb. What
with all the lunds, sons, stroms,
quists, holms, and if I've missed you
this time, I'll get you next time, all
having the times of their lives grunt-ing
and groaning (wishing doesn't
help much here) their belongings into
their respective apartments, you'd see
what is meant by "Keeping so busy"
But they all showed that they can
have a lot of fun even though there
is a lot of work connected with it,
and I don't think any one will dispute
with me that moving a two hundred
pound trunk up two or three flights
is exactly child's play.
Now don't get me wrong. There was
more that happened than just couples
moving in. Take that fellow (no
names mentioned) who was driving
his wife and one of their female
friends around the city, when his car
broke down, and they were hauled
home by a wrecker, - - -and the absent-minded
scholar who dashed into his
own (fortunately) apartment, slam-med
his wife and kissed the door.
INITIATION
(c2ntinued from page 1)
the leg by a garter. It w as against
the laws of the campus for them to
shave all during Frosh Week.
Of course, there were many diso-bedient
initiates, but they received
their due punishment at the Initiation
Ceremonies in the recreation room of
the boys' dorm.
Bill Lindroth, who was the clown
of the evening, assisted by Goldie
Erickson and Sally Lindberg, aamin-istered
the rewards as they were or-dered
by the judge, Bill Wright, and
the jury.
Shampoos of molasses and corn
flakes, limburger cheese and cod liver
oil, flour and herring oil, eggs and
catsup, and red dye were given to
many free of charge. ,A tasty garlic
was enjoyed by one personality, and
a neat job of hair cutting was proven
on the bangs of two other individuals.
But it's quite apparent that the
Freshman class pulled through it
famously,and they count it a rare pri-vilege
to have become official Bethel-ites.
To the new class of next year
they say only this:
"Just you wait!"
— WOMEN'S DORM —
A welcoming committee of Sophs
was established early to administer
the traditional bathtub rites to 12 un-suspecting
Freshies. After the "cer-emony"
they preferred to be bar-ricaded
in one room until 2:30 a.m.
rather than find out what else the
Sophs had in store for them.
However, the new dorm rules will
change all that, stating that lights
must be out by 11:00 p.m. each week-day
night except Friday. First offense
gives warning that any infringment
of this rule calls for a visit with the
Dean of Women.
It just ain't what it used to be.
Eleven-ten p.m. Tuesday night, the
monitors reported everyone in bed
and lights out. Everyone except some
sophs. No excuse, Ouida Mae and
Joan.
Naomi Nesterud used a new method
of getting acquainted by standing in
the doorway to the dining hall and
welcoming everyone in line. Or did
the Sophmores request it?
The Sophs thought one Freshies
attire was so pretty that she was
asked to model it before the entire
dining hall Monday night. Did you
learn how to model in school, Margie?
It's quite different.
The occupants of the rooms in the
southeast wing would like to know
who was serenading them about 1:00
a.m. Tuesday morning. Anyone having
any information, see Helen Holle.
The loud crash you heard (or should
I say crashes) coming from the dish-washing
room has something to do
with the fact that we are drinking
milk out of cups now, and that band-age
you see on Mary's finger has
something to do with the loud crash.
She'll tell you more about it.
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The Clarion
Bediets Scitaai Pape/A
Vol. XXVII — No. 1
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. September 17, 1947
Tests, Picnics
Open '47-'48
School Year
Bethel officially opened its arm of
welcome on Wednesday, September 3,
and received over 200 Freshmen,
eager to begin their college work. The
Freshmen tested their knowledge,
listened to Orientation lectures and
registered during the three following
days. A "get-acquainted campfire was
held in Como Park, Thursday night.
Chartered streetcars took them to the
Minneapolis Youth for Christ on Sat-urday
night. By Monday when most
of the upper classmen returned, the
Freshmen were well settled and en-joying
the fellowship at Bethel.
Monday, September 8, was Soph-more
and Junior Registration day.
Returning students appeared happy to
be back on the Campus. Most of the
student body found its way t o
Como Park that evening to enjoy
games and generous portions of water-melon.
Classes began on Tuesday morning,
September 9. Many instructors found
their classes overcrowded which will
necessitate several changes in the
schedule.
The Seminary students registered
on Monday, September 8. They en-joyed
the fellowship of their annual
pre-classes, two hour Chapel on Tues-day
from 10:00 to 12:00 noon and
formally began their classwork on
Wednesday, September 10.
Music Outlook
Promising
Bethel's musical life is in for a most
successful year, if a promising crop
of musicians is any standard of mea-surment.
Early auditions for both the
choruses and the band showed that
the incoming freshmen were fairly
well supplied with talent. It now
remains for the leaders of the various
musical organizations to make their
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The irrepressible stench of potent
perfume, the formidable feel of vis-cous
objects, these were only two of
the sensations which came to over
200 persons on the evening of Sep-tember
12, 1947, in St. Paul, Minneso-ta.
Their piercing shrieks were aud-ible
to scores of witnesses, as one by
one they made their way down a dark
corridor in the basement floor of a
large, brick building on Arona Ave-nue.
As the ghastly sight of a human
skeleton met their eyes, it was all
Coach Arch Skalbeck
New Members
Join Faculty
In connection with the rapidly ex-panding
character of Bethel College,
ten new professors have taken their
places among the faculty. They come
from all over the country and re-present
the best in Christian educat-ors.
Miss Marina Axeen, B. A., is Beth-el's
first full-time librarian. The Eng-lish
and language departments are
now augmented by Mrs. De Laitsh,
B. A., and Miss Violet Bergquist, M.A.,
respectively. Mr. Royal Bloom, M. A.,
is in charge of the psychology and
education departments besides serving
as dii.ector of personnel. The over-burdened
history department will now
be re-enforced by Mr. Reynold Pik,
M. A.; Mr. Samuel Schultz, B. A.,
B. D.; and Mr. Ferdinand Schultz,
M. A. Mr. Samuel Schultz will also
instruct in Bible. To the aid of math-ematics
professor, Gerald Ahlquist,
comes Mr. Quentin Bohne, B. C. E.,
while Bethel's new accent on sports
they could do to draw what they
thought would be their last breath.
Yes — you've guessed it; it was
Freshrdan Initiation Night at Bethel
College.
The festivities of Friday evening
were preceded by a week of strenu-ous,
unmerciful treatment by members
of the Sophomore class. All the frills
a n d fashion of young womanhood
were abandoned and "pigtails" repla-ced
the once stunning coiffures. All
their outer clothing was worn inside
Clarion To Be
Issued Weekly
Here it is, the new 1947-48 Clarion.
Those familiar with previous editions
will readily notice the changes to be
incorporated in this year's edition.
First of all, the paper will be issued
every week except during vacations
instead of the twice monthly schedule
maintained last year. The general
appearance of the paper will also be
brightened as much as possible with
the inclusion of pictures and the
reader interest heightened with more
emphasis on news and sports.
Editor-in-chief Perry Hedberg, has
big plans for the future of the paper.
He hopes to mold it into a more
accurate mirror of student opinion
and an 'accurate source of inform-ation
for all things pertaining to
Bethel. An intensive effort has been
made to promote ' a large outside
circulation. Letters have been sent
out to alumni and pastors and a
special subscription blank for use by
students to subscribe for their parents
and friends is being distributed with
this issue.
There is still room for new report-ers,
typists, or anyone with journal-istic
experience of any kind. Quite a
few volunteers have offered to help
already, but issuing a weekly paper
obviously requires a larger staff than
before. The Clarion office is located
in room 108 and all you have to do
is drop in and state your intentions.
has brought Mr. A. M. Skalbeck, B. A.,
to coach football and help out with
physical education.
More detailed information about
some of the above mentioned prof-essors
will appear in fut.ure editions
of The Clarion. This week's sketch
on Coach Skalbeck appears in a dif-ferent
place in this edition.
out and on their feet were unmatched
shoes and stockings. Pale, wan, make-upless
faces greeted the world each
morning, and no jewelry adorned their
unusual costumes.
T h e fellows were seen sporting
varied-designed and colored neck-ties
with their T-shirts. They too were
required to wear unmatched shoes
and stockings, while one pants' leg
was worn rolled up and the sock on
that foot was securely anchored to
(Continued on page 4)
New Building
Plans Told
With the singing of the grand old
hymn, "Faith of Our Fathers", led
by Prof. Nels Stjernstrom, the formal
dedication service for the Hagstrom
and Edgren Residences began last
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 in the Col-lege
Chapel. The service was led
by President Wingblade, and the main
speaker for the occasion was Rev.
William Turnwall.
The Bethel Male Quartet consisting
of Robert Sandin, James Rentz, Don
Patet, and Paul Leafblad, sang the
first of their numbers following which
Dr. K. J. Karlson, Dean of the Semi-nary,
led in devotions.
The quartet sang another number,
following which Rev. H. W. Malmsten
told of the new building program to
be inaugurated soon. He stressed the
need for more room in which to live
as well as to work. He said that the
total cost of the two new buildings
was about $325,000 and mentioned
the interesting fact that many of the
rooms were furnished in memory of
loved ones of friends of the Confer-ence.
After another musical selection, Dr.
Burton, chairman of the school board,
made a few remarks and introduced
Rev. William Turnwall. Rev. Turn-wall
mentioned his recent trip to the
Scandinavian lands and gave an in-teresting
summary of Christian edu-cation
as he found it over there. Pre-sident
Strong, of the St. Paul Bible
Institute gave a greeting after which
the service was concluded with a
hymn and the closing prayer by Dr.
Hagstrom, President Emeritus.
Those present then adjourned to
the front of the Hagstrom Residence
for the Dedication. The dedicatory
prayer was offered by Rev. Martin
Erikson and the short service was
ended with the Doxology.
Look Vets!
In the event that you're wondering
when your first subsistence checks
will arrive and how much they will
amount to, the following information
has been gathered at the Veterans
Administration office:
If you were a student here last
year, just sit tight and sooner or
later your check will arrive. Due to
the increase in college enrollment
among veterans, some of us may be
called upon to wait until the first
of November, but have faith that the
V. A. is going all out to get as many
(Continued on page 4)
Dormitories Dedicated
The Coliele Cad, daft Mefrptioa Titi4
Page 2 THE CLARION
The Clarion
Editor-in-Chief Perry 0, Hedberg
Ass't Editor Marwin Lindstedt
Managing Editor Rudy W. Forsman
Ass't. Managing Editor John Soneson
News Editor Marwin Lindstedt
Feature Editor David Carlson
Sports Editor David Osterberg
Reporters Audrey Carlson, Harold
Christensen, Doris Olson, Bill Lind-roth,
Ed Stayton, John Leggett,
Adele Bavin, Al Olsson, Pat Colbum,
Paul Anderson, Pat Pope, Carl Apph-quist,
Bernice Madsen, and Milt
Regier.
tbe jBeginning
In the beginning God! The timely and time-less
truth of this statement cannot be avoided.
Behind the rolling spheres is God, as we are
reminded thirty-five times in the creation
story (Gen. 1-2:3). Only the fool rashly says,
"There is no God."
Coming from the hand of the Creator, we
see the earth stored with coal, iron, and oil;
clothed with grass, trees, and flowers; cleft
with lakes and streams; teeming with animal
life.- - - -the perfect abode of man. For God
was graciously preparing fdr man long before
he was created and granted him dominion over
the earth and all its creatures.
And even when man, created in the image
of God, rebelled against God and sinned, it
was God who sought him, and has made avail-able
for the repentant soul new life through
Christ. In redemption as in creation, "in the
beginning God."
We members of the Bethel family do well
to purpose: "In the beginning God. In my
life, in my plans, in school, in play, in work- - -
in everything He comes first. In the beginning
God! PI
Anton Pearson
Daily Worship Essential
By the Christian Student
"In the beginning was the Word".
Bethelites, we are beginning a new school
year- - -taking new courses- - -learning new
things. For some of us, college life is a new
experience from which we hope to hew the
foundation stones of Christian service, whether
it be in a business, religious or social field.
For all of us, college life at Bethel may be
rich in spiritual as well as religious content,
if we remember to put the Word of God
first in our daily program.
"In the beginning was the Word"
Tomorrow morning and every morning,
study carefully a few verses from God's Word.
Let those verses ring in your heart all the
day long. Take them with you from class to
class. Renew them as you eat your noon-day
meal. Let them re-echo as you kneel alone
in •Bethel's prayer tower. Seek to find in them
a special message from the Lord. Weave
these verses into your life all through the
day, and at night you will have no desire to
loose your hold on them as you prepare for
sleep. Let it be said of every day you spend at
Bethel this year. "In the beginning was the
Word".
tar es
We'll call this column Potar, although. no
one seems to know exactly what it means - - -
something to do with a second cup of coffee;
which reminds me, I haven't had mine yet.
If a school's vitality can be measured by
the activity of its coffee shop, Bethel is on
its way toward being the busiest campus in
the Twin Cities. Freshman are everywhere - - -
some 200 of theia, with the largest freshman
enrollment ever to register here. They cer-tainly
are a peculiar looking bunch with their
beanies, pigtails, and wrongside out clothes.
Football came to Bethel this fall in all its
glory. Watching the fellows work out the
first afternoon of practice sent a thrill down
my spine. Bethel is now participating in
every major college activity- - - -here's to great
success to Coach Skalbeck and his grand
bunch of guys.
No doubt most of you have heard of the
program to build a field house at Bethel.
With football added to the list of activities,
the need for more adequate facilities be-comes
increasingly apparent. Let's get behind
this project students and alumni, and get the
field-house here in a hurry. We're getting
tired of other teams laughing at our "cracker-box"
gym.
My coffee's almost gone, but there is one
other thing I'd like to mention. Quite often
we hear Bethel referred to as a little school.
That's not true anymore. There are now plans
underway for a new memorial chapel and ad-ministration
building which will face Snelling
Ave. between the college and seminary build-ings.
This building will be the last of the
Centennial buildings. Our small campus will
then have a total of six large buildings with
a property valuation of about $1,100,000. Truly,
He is able "to do exceeding abundantly above
all we ask or think."
21:1, .2saace diavs
By Dave Carlson
It was quite by chance the other day that
I found a rather odd-shaped package among
my clothes, books, sling shots, etc. It was
wrapped in a yellowed St. Paul Dispatch dated
June 6, 1947 with an abundance of borrowed
string around it. I tore off the wrapper and
the 25 layers of tissue paper and there, to my
amazement, I found an article which I had
forgotten about completely. What do you
think it was? No, it wasn't my giant size
bottle of hair tonic nor was it my Male
Chorus charm which, by the way, I have
never received. It was my dear friend, the
HARP, however, so I tenderly rested it on
my stomach and- touched its strings but, alas
and alack, it was horribly out of tune. I was
at a loss....my harp tuner was in Portland,
Ore. and would not be here until the latter
part of October. In desperation I tightened
the strings myself but I am afraid you, my
dear readers, will sense a few flat notes here
and there as the result of my harp not being
tuned by my expert. As long as the strings
are intact, we shall try to make some kind of
music to grate upon your ears....desirable or
not.
CHIT CHAT....I would like to suggest that
all Freshmen wear name plates for the first
quarter as a convenience for the upper class-men,
especially those Sophmore boys who
have been casting wistful glances at the op-posite
sex in the Freshman class.... Another
disconcerting note should be sounded in re-gard
to the "obstacle course" which Semin-ary
students must run between trailers while
etnz of Xbougbt
By President Wingblade
Once more a fellowship of faculty and stu-dents
are beginning a year of school work on
Bethel campus. Some of us have seen a good
many generations of students come to Bethel
halls with faces aglow, stay a while, and then
go out to do and dare in the midst of world
needs.
Question: What will your coming mean to
this year of Bethel—your roomate, your chum,
your fellow students, to your teachers—to
the atmosphere of the School? "If every stu-dent
were just like me, what kind of school
would Bethel be?"
How true it is that there are just two kinds
of people in the world, and in a school,
namely, the lifter and the leaner. Will you
be the one -who shall buoy up the spirit of
a fellow student with a kind word, a cherrfai
smile, a helpful hand—just when he needs it
most?
Will you by your very presence in a group,
in a classroom, in a meeting just raise the
thermometer of love and faith because you
are there? Will the very light in your count-enance
make it easier for teacher or chapel
speaker to carry on? Will you by your love
for Christ and deep prayer life be a very
fountain of inspiration this year?
As I look back across the years at Bethel
student life, and individuals as they have
been on the campus and then as they have
gone out, I find that this is so largely true—
that students do not change much. When they
get out as pastors or laymen they continue
to be pretty much what they were at Bethel.
I can visualize a score or more of pastors
today and prove that point to my own mind.
How important, then, to begin now to be
what we really want to be ten years or
twenty years from now. May the Lord give
us His sufficiency for it all.
A Beginning ThoughT
As the 1947-48 school year begins, the year
which bridges the gap between Bethel, the
Junior College, and Bethel, the Senior College,
hopes are running high' for great accomplish-ment.
We are encouraged! This thought ling-ers
with us. Christian students have the
greatest advantage of all students. They al-ready
have met with and know TRUTH, the
Lord Jesus Christ, and then engage in their
several educational pursuits with real assur-ance
of a proper interpretation of life.
dashing (can't you just see them?) from
b. eakfast to their first hour class ...Have
you noticed the happy and well-fed look on
the faces of some of the newly-wed fellows
around campus? I sought some advice from
one of them the other day and all he had to
say was, "Go and do likewise". Think I will.
I-NE VER-EXPECT-T 0-SEE-DEPT : Maynard
without Thelma.... the light of day unless I
get up before breakfast one of these mornings
....Pat Salstrom because her schedule seems
to be a 24-hour one, including dormitory part-ies
and general chemistry. Poor girl....the
Chapel speaker if I am not unfortunate en-ough
to get a seat in the first row of the
"balcony" but if I go that far back I will miss
a seat in Dr. Karlson's class. So I can't win.
GREETINGS -....Realizing the danger I
face in being called an "apple polisher", I
want to say "Welcome" to all the new teach-ers
on our "campus beautiful" this year We
are sure that their addition to our campus
is an improvement and we hope that you will
all feel like members of our jig "Bethel
family" whose members are spread through-out
the world. Oh yes, and hard tests are
frowned upon by the majority of your "bro-thers
and sisters". (Hope that word is suf-ficient).
Typists Jean Butler, Carolyn Hedberg,
Roy Dalton
Art Editor Ted Hamlin
Photographers ....Byron Skalman, Harry Paney
Business Manager Bob Hamlett
Circulation Manager Kenneth Skov
Faculty Adviser V. Elving Anderson
Issued weekly during the school year, ex-cept
vacations.
Subscription price - - -$1.50 per year
THE CLARION Page 3
Indians Make Football Debut Sept. 19th
Grid Team Adds
To Sport Parade Sguad Qets Pautteu
Signals! Hike? Hit 'em hard! Hit
'em low!
Though the weatherman denies it,
Fall is almost here, and with it this
year football has put in an appearance
on the Bethel campus. The air is
filled with footballs and gridiron lingo
while many more (or less) rugged
men are making the acquaintance of
good 'ole mother earth. All this act-ivity
is part of the expanding pro-gram
of the Athletic Department de-signed
to keep pace with the ever
progressing development of the school
as a whole.
Though this is the first team to be
put on the field by the College De-partment
since its organization in
1932, football as a sport is not a new
project to the school. In 1908 when
Bethel Academy was in its infancy,
football made its debut under the
direction of Professor Smith. Some
of our alumni should recognize the
names of these first fore-runners of
the 1947 Bethel football team. Burk-man,
RE; Fendall, RG; A. Erickson,
C; J. Anderson, LG; P. Anderson, LT;
Thompson, LE; Segerstrom, QB;
Sundwall, RHB; Smith, LHB; M.
Ericson, B. In this first year two
games were played with the Academy
losing 15 to 5 to a strong St. Anthony
Park team and playing a scoreless tie
with Minnesota College.
From its beginning football at Be-thel
suffered from lack of equipment,
athletic field, and man-power. Occas-ional
bursts of school spirit brought
about revivals of the sport, but until
1916 football did not enjoy a regular
place on the school calendar. Two
members of our present school staff,
Professor A. J. Wingblade and Rev.
W. Malmsten, had a share in guiding
our teams until 1931 when the Acad-emy
was closed.
Today Bethel has the equipment,
manpower, and school spirit neces-sary
to organize a good football team,
and tentative plans have been made
to convert our campus ground be-tween
the college building and the
dormitories into a gridiron. A. Skal-beck,
a man with a great deal of
coaching experience, has been appoint-ed
head of the team. His task of
moulding a good team out of a group
of men who for the most part have
had very little playing experience
is a tremendous one. However, there
are some good men, and with a little
hard work and effort on the part of
all, Bethel can have a good team and
lay the foundation for future Bethel
teams to build upon.
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Thursday afternoon, September 4th,
marked the first meeting of the Be-thel
Indians' football squad. Thirty-five
prospective heroes gathered in
the locker room to hear words of
welcome from the coach, Paul Ed-wards,
who substituted for head coach
Skalbeck.
The football is now being kicked
around, and the basketbill will soon
be taking the bounds which calls for
some fellows and girls to come out
and lead the gang in cheering. Letters
will be given to the cheerleaders on
the first team. There will be four
leaders on the first team with an
alternate team of four. Tryouts will
be held soon with Bob Nelson in
charge. A notice will be posted on the
bulletin board as to the time and
date of tryouts. All girls and fellows
interested in cheerleading begin to
limber up, and watch for the notice.
First Drill Tough Work
With groans and moans and twice
as much sweat, the football team be-gan
practice sessions last Tuesday.
The fellows soon found that their
hard work through the summer had
not resulted in being in top-notch
condition. The fellows started out
great as passing drills took place, but
when the coach had them run a sprint,
all were ready to rest. They got their
rest by doing calisthenics over and
over again. Some of the fellows
couldn't understand why the coach
had them fall on their stomachs when
they hadn't even gotten up yet from
the previous fall, but that's football
for you. At the close of that first
Friday, September 19th, will be
the opening date for this season.
Rochester Junior College will meet
the Indians here at home, and though
our boys will be handicapped by a
short training period, you can expect
a good battle. In a return game with
Rochester, Bethel plays them on their
field October 3rd. A three week lay-orr
will provide our gridders with ail
opportunity to really prepare for the
Homecoming game with Austin, Oct.
24th. This should be the game of the
year! The season will close with a
whirlwind windup playing two games
in four days. On November 7th, Go-gebic
Junior College from Ironwood,
Michigan will be here, and on the
11 Bethel travels to Estherville, Iowa,
for the finale.
Much interest has been shown on
the part of both the boys out for the
team and the student body at our
practice session. We believe that this
interest in football will prevail throu-ghout
the season and that 1947 will
be the beginning of a successful car-eer
for football at Bethel.
practice session about thirty-five
weary fellows trudged off the field in-to
the locker room and gingerly felt
of the bruised and aching muscles.
Many beds were occupied early that
night, -but because of a true love for
football the boys have willingly been
back for more every afternoon.
Arch Skalbeck
Leads Gridders
We take great pleasure in intro-ducing
to the students and friends
of Bethel College, Mr. Arch Skalbeck,
a newcomer to our Athletic Staff.
Coach Skalbeck will take complete
charge of our football activities which
begin this year.
The Coach, who is six-foot three
inches tall, tips the scales at about
two hundred pounds. This huge frame-work
put him in good standing when
he played tackle and end for Gustavus
Adolphus College back in tne twenties.
He is a pleasant and genial gentle-man,
but one who really knows how
to command the respect of all who
play under him.
Graduating from Gustavus Adolphus
in 1927, Mr. Skalbeck has gathered
much experience as coach of foot-ball
and basketball, school teacher,
and high school principal. As coach
he helped direct athletics at Stevens,
Sleepy Eye, and Virginia High Schools
in Northern Minnesota, and at Wash-ington
High in St. Paul. At Sleepy
Eye his football team won the con-ference
championship in 1936, and
at Virginia High the Iron Range
championship for 1938 was captured
by his basketball boys. On September
1st this year, Mr. Skalberg resigned
from his position on the Minnesota
Board of Parole in order to return
to teaching and coaching, in which he
has done so well in these past years.
As this is the first year of football
at our school, Coach Skalbeck isn't
concentrating on a championship, but
he won't be unhappy if the boys do
come through and win for him.
Sciteciale
Sept. 19 Rochester Junior College
*Oct. 3 Rochester Junior College
*Oct. 24 Austin (Homecoming)
Nov. 7 Gogebic Junior College
Nov. 11 Esterville Junior College
* Conference Games.
Cheerleaders to Try Out Initial Kickoff
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Page 4 THE CLARION
Sentence Sermons Campus Dorms Receive New Life
Wherever you find a boastful
Christian, you have an immature
Christian.
Humility grows with spiritual mat-urity.
A mature Christian Life is a Fut-urist's
life.
C. E. Carlson
We need not flaunt our Christianity
in the face of the world, nor need we
be ashamed of Christ, but put the
light on the candlestick where it be-longs.
H. C. Wingblade
MUSIC
(continued from page 1)
final selections and • get serious re-hearsals
under way.
The situation in the two choruses
is good. The male chorus needs only a
few replacements as the majority of
last year's chorus is returning. There
is still room for a few more good first
tenors, but otherwise the auditions
have taken care of most of the needs
for this year. The girl's chorus is
only 505 strong as compared with
last year, so there is more chance
for aspiring singers to get in. With
the large number of experienced sing-ers
in both choruses, the outlook for
this year is better than ever.
Plans for reviving the concert band
are also under way. Bert Anderson is
again in charge and rehearsals are
scheduled on Tuesday nights. How
soon these rehearsals are to start
depends . on the support and enthus-iasm
of the many players who have
already volunteered to play.
— MEN'S DORM —
Now that school is again in session,
the patter of large feet can be heard
stumbling over the welcome mat of
the men's dorm. The mat is beginning
to look like a freshman after the
initiation program. The elite, and
not so robust members of the past
years, welcome the new comrades,
trusting that they will make them-selves
at home in every respect.
It has been interesting to note hbw
quiet the dorm was this past week.
Could it be that the freshman were
having trouble getting home after
their little rides into the country.
Hmmmm, who knows? No doubt
they'll be in early and studying this
week. How quiet the dorm will be is
another conjective.
The men's dorm, is looking
forward to a year of wonderful Christ-ian
fellowship and good fun, as well
as serious concentrated study.
VETERANS
(continued from page 1)
checks as they can into the mail by
October first.-
If you are a newcomer, you must
present to the school your letter of
elegibility. If you have transferred
to Bethel from another school, you
must secure an amended letter of
elegibility to present to this school;
and as soon as the V. A. is assured
that you are in attendance here, you
will be in line for your check on the
first of every month.
— MARRIED COUPLE'S DORM —
It seems that married people have
the happy facility of keeping so busy
that they remain unaffected by such
trivialities as watermelon feeds,
classes, and other such minutia as
may seem quite important to those
who have not yet received their pass-port
to bliss (license, that is,
Take last week for examplb. What
with all the lunds, sons, stroms,
quists, holms, and if I've missed you
this time, I'll get you next time, all
having the times of their lives grunt-ing
and groaning (wishing doesn't
help much here) their belongings into
their respective apartments, you'd see
what is meant by "Keeping so busy"
But they all showed that they can
have a lot of fun even though there
is a lot of work connected with it,
and I don't think any one will dispute
with me that moving a two hundred
pound trunk up two or three flights
is exactly child's play.
Now don't get me wrong. There was
more that happened than just couples
moving in. Take that fellow (no
names mentioned) who was driving
his wife and one of their female
friends around the city, when his car
broke down, and they were hauled
home by a wrecker, - - -and the absent-minded
scholar who dashed into his
own (fortunately) apartment, slam-med
his wife and kissed the door.
INITIATION
(c2ntinued from page 1)
the leg by a garter. It w as against
the laws of the campus for them to
shave all during Frosh Week.
Of course, there were many diso-bedient
initiates, but they received
their due punishment at the Initiation
Ceremonies in the recreation room of
the boys' dorm.
Bill Lindroth, who was the clown
of the evening, assisted by Goldie
Erickson and Sally Lindberg, aamin-istered
the rewards as they were or-dered
by the judge, Bill Wright, and
the jury.
Shampoos of molasses and corn
flakes, limburger cheese and cod liver
oil, flour and herring oil, eggs and
catsup, and red dye were given to
many free of charge. ,A tasty garlic
was enjoyed by one personality, and
a neat job of hair cutting was proven
on the bangs of two other individuals.
But it's quite apparent that the
Freshman class pulled through it
famously,and they count it a rare pri-vilege
to have become official Bethel-ites.
To the new class of next year
they say only this:
"Just you wait!"
— WOMEN'S DORM —
A welcoming committee of Sophs
was established early to administer
the traditional bathtub rites to 12 un-suspecting
Freshies. After the "cer-emony"
they preferred to be bar-ricaded
in one room until 2:30 a.m.
rather than find out what else the
Sophs had in store for them.
However, the new dorm rules will
change all that, stating that lights
must be out by 11:00 p.m. each week-day
night except Friday. First offense
gives warning that any infringment
of this rule calls for a visit with the
Dean of Women.
It just ain't what it used to be.
Eleven-ten p.m. Tuesday night, the
monitors reported everyone in bed
and lights out. Everyone except some
sophs. No excuse, Ouida Mae and
Joan.
Naomi Nesterud used a new method
of getting acquainted by standing in
the doorway to the dining hall and
welcoming everyone in line. Or did
the Sophmores request it?
The Sophs thought one Freshies
attire was so pretty that she was
asked to model it before the entire
dining hall Monday night. Did you
learn how to model in school, Margie?
It's quite different.
The occupants of the rooms in the
southeast wing would like to know
who was serenading them about 1:00
a.m. Tuesday morning. Anyone having
any information, see Helen Holle.
The loud crash you heard (or should
I say crashes) coming from the dish-washing
room has something to do
with the fact that we are drinking
milk out of cups now, and that band-age
you see on Mary's finger has
something to do with the loud crash.
She'll tell you more about it.
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